Ministery of Defense reaction and followUp
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Top U.S. Officer: WikiLeaks Might Have ‘Blood on Its Hands’ | Danger Room | Wired.com
As Pentagon leaders go, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen are fairly mild-mannered — prone to quiet, careful assessments, not table-pounding bluster.Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen spoke to reporters and answered questions about the release of classified war documents by the website WikiLeaks.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen spoke to reporters and answered questions about th
LONDON — Human rights groups said Tuesday they've asked WikiLeaks to censor secret files on the Afghanistan war to protect civilians who've worked alongside the U.S. and other foreign forces from reprisals. The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, Amnesty International and three other groups have sent a series of e-mails to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange calling for the names of Afghan civilians to be removed from the 77,000 classified military documents published by the online whistle-blower last month.
Amnesty International, Human Rights Groups Ask Wikileaks To Censor Civilians' Names
Human Rights Groups Press WikiLeaks Over Data - WSJ.com
A group of human-rights organizations is pressing WikiLeaks to do a better job of redacting names from thousands of war documents it is publishing, joining the list of critics that claim the Web site's actions could jeopardize the safety of Afghans who aided the U.S. military. The letter from five human-rights groups sparked a tense exchange in which WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange issued a tart challenge for the organizations to help with the massive task of removing names from thousands of documents, according to several of the organizations that signed the letter.
Mensenrechtengroepen hebben dinsdag klokkenluiderswebsite Wikileaks gevraagd om de namen die voorkomen in de gelekte documenten over de oorlog in Afghanistan weg te halen.
Amnesty: verwijder namen uit Wikileaks - Trouw
Why won't the Pentagon help WikiLeaks redact documents? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Punish the Whistleblowers The Obama administration has already charged more people — six — under the Espionage Act for alleged mishandling of classified information than all past presidencies combined. (Prior to Obama, there were only three such cases in American history.)
I guess those who care about international press freedom can take comfort in the fact that Marc Thiessen no longer works for the government. On the Washington Post website , the former Bush Administration speechwriter and harsh interrogation booster , offers his view of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.